Expressing - help! Electric pumps especially.

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I had a section a few days ago and the baby isn't latching on - we have tried pretty much everything and had a lot of advice but no-one seems able to get him to feed 'normally'. I have a good milk supply so I'm expressing by hand at the moment but want to use an electric pump. We got a Tommee Tippee but it doesn't seem to work - no suction. Any tips on fixing it, or on the best electric breast pumps?

I use an Advent electric pump & I have no bad words to say about it. It works a treat.

Congratulations & I hope the feeding works out for you both! :)

If you are still in hospital they should have a super hospital grade one you can use. I expressed for dd when she was in neo natal and the hospital pump was a hundred times better than the pump I bought. Both were Medela ones.

I found the Medela Swing excellent, the other types I'd tried just didn't work for me. But at hospital they should have a good pump you can borrow.

Do they have a breastfeeding support group there you can attend? Either that or it maybe time to Call La Leche or see if an NCT breastfeeding counsellor can visit you.

Also have they checked your baby for tongue tie? My DS had trouble until they snipped his tongue tie. It can be missed on birth.

I had a tommee tippee pump. It was crap! Avent one excellent and I use all the bottles etc and it's all been great.

I've never heard anything good about TT breastpumps. I hated mine and gave it away in the end! I have a Medela mini, which is small, very portable and very noisy. And a Ameda lactaline, which I got second hand. Both are great though. I'll be after a agent manual pump in addition to my electric ones this time round.

LLL has a free helpline womanned 24/7, can you get in touch with them? They are truly fab :)

Get the spectra breast pump from amazon, amazing bit of kit and only £60. It is as good I found as the medela symphony that I used at the hospital. The spectra has great reviews, I have been pumping for 4.5 months with it, a life saver

thanks, great tips! Will call LLL.

Medela electric pump is the best value for money and excellent product.

Avent is great, I love the silicone cushion in it, it makes things so much more comfortable. I have got a dual electric from ebay but I imagine the single one is just as good. The manual one is fine actually but it takes longer to get a bottle full and I got fed up of my hand aching before I had finished.

I have been told by someone at bf group that the problem with the TT pumps is12 recognised fault and you can return them and get money back. Might be worth a try! I've heard good things about Medela Swing.

I used an Avent double electric for 3 babies. ds3 and ds4 I used it for around a year each and it was still going strong for dd but sadly she died aged 7 weeks It was very expensive but still going strong at the end,